Steven A. Melnick ⁽⁷¹⁾

I spent part of my time here in Costa Rica SCUBA diving. When I started talking about getting certified to SCUBA dive, my wife was less than enthused. She said something to the effect of, "Are you nuts? You're going to be 70 years old…

Traveling provides the opportunity to see new sights, meet new people, and experience different cultures and languages. By far, meeting new people from all over the world ranks high. I have met people from at least a dozen countries in my short stay in Costa…

Right now, I am spending the month of February in Tamarindo, Costa Rica -- mostly to get away from winter but also to complete the required SCUBA dives for my PADI Advanced Open Water certification. I have completed six dives over three days at Playas…

Alas, however, we were not permitted to spend any money at any of those places. We could only patronize shops owned and operated by local people, not the government. Prohibited not by the Cuban government but rather by the United States government. We were told…

Our Little Cottage at the Hotel Gardenia Tamarindo, Costa Rica We've spent the past three winters in Florida (north-central) and found the local people and travelers we met along the way to be wonderful, kind, caring folks. We will miss them immensely. However, the itch…